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ABSTRACT Ayunisa Luthfi, 2318.064. “The Effect of Flipped Classroom Model on Students’ Reading Comprehension at the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 4 Tapaktuan” a thesis. English Education Department. IAIN Bukittinggi, 2022. Teaching reading comprehension skill was not easy especially for students in countries where English was used as a foreign language. The EFL students had difficulties in comprehending English text because they still lack in vocabulary, grammar, and also background knowledge, so that it was difficult for them to master in reading comprehension skill. In this new normal era the time allocation for teaching learning process was decreased, so that the teacher got difficult in achieve learning objective. For that reason, the teacher must consider the suitable model in teaching reading in order to achieve all the learning objectives. One of the models that can be used by the teacher was flipped classroom model. In this model, the teacher shared the material before class. It means, the students were asked to comprehend the material from home and bring their understanding to the class. Flipped classroom model was one of the models that can be used by the teacher in teaching reading skill. The Flipped classroom model makes students used to study before coming to the class. In this model, students had the preparation for learning process. This research used quantitative approach and the kind of research was experimental one. The design of this research was pre-experimental with one group pretest-posttest type. The population of this research was all the eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Tapaktuan. The researcher used total sampling technique because this research used all the population as the sample, which consisted of 18 students. The data were gotten from the students’ reading tests that were given before and after the treatment. The result of the research indicated that the score of students in post-test was higher than the score of pre-test. The mean score of pre-test was 48.67, where the mean score of students’ post-test was 75.89. It means that the flipped classroom model gave contribution on students’ reading comprehension. In addition, from the calculation = 0,05 is 1.740. It means that the t-obtained was higher than t-table. In other words, the Ha was accepted, which stated that there was significant effect of using flipped classroom model on students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Tapakatuan. It can be concluded that, using flipped classroom model gave significant effect for students in improve their reading comprehension skill. Key words: Flipped classroom, Reading comprehension, Recount Text